Friday, February 12, 2010

CHINA MILITARY POWER

The 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Popular China Republic, prompted in October of the 2009, the realization of a military parade, in which were exhibited ultramodern combat airplanes, intercontinental missiles, submarines, drones without pilot, antisatellital weapons, carriers aircrafts equal or superiors to american military weapons. China has 2.3 million active soldiers, 6700 tanks, 7400 artillery systems, 2,300 combat airplanes, 75 big warships, 6 nuclear submarines, 140 operative nuclear weapons, interconnected by means of sophisticated communication nets. To many observers such armament would have as goal to recover Taiwan, the renegade island allied of USA and to be ready before an eventual military confrontation with USA. The powerful Chinese intercontinental missile : DF-21 equipped with warheads, able to reach 2000 miles in less than 12 minutes and to demolish from the sea enemy carriers airplanes maintains in keels to the American Navy.

What was shown perhaps would be alone the tip of the iceberg because Chinese economic investment in armaments is incessant. In the 2008 China invested 150 billions american dollars and the 2009 70 billions dollars in military adquisitions. Mention separated deserves the investment in strategic and space capacities. Although the military distance among USA and China is even wide, it is clear that China is coming closer. In the last years China has rushed but missiles and vehicles to the space that all Europe. Also it has destroyed by means of precise missiles their obsolete space weather satellites. Having acquired China a superpower status, it is clear that we attend a new type of Cold War.